Largely written out of U.S. film history, cinema's first woman director—as well as producer and studio head—Alice Guy Blaché enters the pantheon, or at least the Whitney Museum of American Art, with a three-month, 80-film retro. A French pioneer, Guy Blaché was, for a decade, the prime creative force at the world's oldest extant studio, Gaumont, and a nickelodeonist in some ways comparable to D.W. Griffith (whom she predates) and Louis Feuillade (who served as her assistant at Gaumont). Relocating to the U.S. in 1910, she established a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and, for another decade, produced longer fare: domestic comedies, family melodramas, social problem films, and adventure movies, often with... More >>>